What You Missed At The Beverly Hills Tea Party

[babylonsister]

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What You Missed At The Beverly Hills Tea Party
Posted by: Mark @ 10:37 am


In lieu of the next 1,000 words…



The much ballyhooed Beverly Hills Tea Party took place yesterday and all expectations – for lameness. It was the epitome of a Beverly Hills Flop. The turnout was a paltry couple of hundred in a city of four million. And, not surprisingly, it was almost exclusively white.

Just to underscore the significance of that, the population of Los Angeles, which surrounds the tiny patch of real estate that makes up Beverly Hills, is only 49% Caucasian. It would be nearly impossible to snap a photo at random anywhere in L.A. County without capturing a fair representation of people of color. Only at a Tea Party could this homogeneity be accomplished. Note to Tea Partiers: Relax, that's not a gay reference. Look it up} :spray:

What they hope to achieve by staging an anti-tax rally in the heart of one of the most affluent communities in the country is difficult to surmise. The denizens of Beverly Hills are the prime benefactors of Republican policies that favor the rich and well-connected. And since those are the same people who bankroll the Tea Party you can’t help but notice a certain conflict of interest. The sad part is that the Tea Partiers have fallen for this crusade on behalf of the enfranchised insiders and truly believe that these elitist millionaires are fighting for the interests of working and middle class citizens.

The festivities were led by ancient pop crooner Pat Boone. And it just got better from there. The speakers roster included the terminally choleric Andrew Breitbart, the neo-fascist David Horowitz, and internationally renowned political analyst Victoria Jackson, who sang her big Tea Party hit “There’s a Communist Living in the White House.” That’s just a representative sample of the reality-based insight emanating from the 90291 stage.

And what Tea Party would be complete without Fox News pumping up the propaganda volume? William La Jeunesse covered the event for Fox like a giddy high school newspaper correspondent at a Justin Bieber concert. After a perfunctory acknowledgment that L.A. is predominately liberal, as are many actors, directors, etc., he says that behind every one of those celebrities are numerous grips, electricians, and production people, who he implies would sympathize with the Tea Baggers. Had he spent more time in Hollywood he would know that those people are mostly union workers who support health care reform, Wall Street regulation, taxing the rich, and other Democratic initiatives that form the basis of the Tea Party’s grievances.

To be sure, there are celebrity types who embrace conservative causes, including those held by the Tea Party. They include inspiring contemporary artists like Chuck Norris, Jon Voight, and Ted Nugent. But if they think that their little soiree in the park adjacent to Rodeo Drive is an indication of their widespread acceptance, they are even more delusional than was previously believed.

[opihimoimoi]

1. GOOD ONE... KnR :o) #5 ....off to the greatest page....

:kick:

[maxsolomon]

2. Brietbart ruined Maher's show Friday night

he's fantastic at throwing up a dense fog of GOP bullshit and logical fallacies. he bullied and interrupted Carl Sagan's widow rather than let her make a simple point about the global warming debate.

even Bill Maher couldn't get a complete sentence in. i wanted to reach into the TV and duct tape his mouth shut.

[otohara]

3. Hope The 10/2 Rally Pulls In More

than this.

[rocktivity]

4. Upholding a near-decade-old tradition

of being out-attended by the porta-potties...



:headbang:
rocktivity

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. kick

[Cleita]

6. One thing about living in Los County is that you didn't

have to travel around the world to absorb other cultures and languages. In LA it comes to you. It's hard to walk down any busy commercial district or mall without hearing languages around you from every where and seeing the people who are speaking them. I loved the diversity of people you could meet and befriend both at work and in your neighborhood. Just in my small five unit building, we had Irish, Danes, Germans, Phillipinos and Persians.

[lunatica]

7. And I bet none of the teabagerrati who attended lives there either

I'm glad to see their bellowing isn't filling the sails of idiocracy run amuck anymore. Red hot seething anger has a pretty short shelf life.

[Initech]

8. There's a lot of teabagging folks in Riverside and especially Orange County.

[krabigirl]

9. Yep.

[Canuckistanian]

10. Whoa, they pulled out ALL the new "up and comers"

Pat Boone, Jon Voigt, Chuck Norris, David Horowitz....

Was this sponsored by Geritol?

[bobburgster]

11. Oh, the poor tea partiers.....n/t

[peekaloo]

12. Sounds like they're casting a remake for 'The Beverly Hillbillies'

or maybe a roundup of critters by the cement pond.

[formercia]

13. Anybody can buy Paint

just as anyone can ride a charter bus to Beverly hills. It doesn't take many does it take to cart in a couple of hundred professional protesters and set up a sound stage?

This little dog and pony show that is going around the Country is nothing but a two-bit political circus, put on by Dick Armey and company.

Like P.T. Barnum once said: "There's a sucker born every minute."